Saturday, November 28, 2015

Iraq snapshot

Saturday, November 11, 28, 2015. Chaos and violence continue, the Anbar Provincial Council objects to the war planes bombing Falluja, Haider al-Abadi appears to be slipping, and much more.

Today, the US government announced:

Strikes in IraqBomber, fighter, attack, and remotely piloted aircraft
conducted 17 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s
government:-- Near Baghdadi, two strikes destroyed two ISIL rocket rails
and damaged a third ISIL rocket rail and denied ISIL access to terrain.-- Near Albu Hayat, one strike struck an ISIL tactical unit.-- Near Mosul, three strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical
units and destroyed an ISIL mortar position and four ISIL fighting
positions.-- Near Ramadi, seven strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical
units and destroyed an ISIL home-made explosives cache, an ISIL
vehicle, an ISIL boat, an ISIL vehicle-borne bomb, two ISIL buildings,
an ISIL heavy machine gun, an ISIL ammo cache, two ISIL weapons caches,
and an ISIL fighting position.

-- Near Sinjar, four strikes struck three separate tactical
units and destroyed two ISIL fighting positions and three ISIL vehicles.

The bombings have no positive effect.

They do, however, terrorize the Iraqi people.

For example, ALSUMARIA reports the Anbar Provincial Council issued a statement today decrying the bombing by warplanes flying over Falluja and notes that these bombs are effecting the lives of civilians and contributing to the deaths of "women and children and the elderly." Civilians in Falluja are calling for an end to the bombings and safe passage out of Falluja.

Anbar is largely Sunni and what's taking place there in the so-called name of 'liberation' is not seen as such by everyone.

It's funny, isn't it, how when Iraqis object to actions by Bully Boy Bush, we on the left rush to insist that they be heard. But when they're not pleased with Barack, we turn our backs on them and act like they weren't speaking.

Or we whine about the US government interfering in an election but when Barack Obama overturned the results of Iraq's 2010 election, we fall silent.

But remember Katrina's grand standing because it's why THE NATION is sinking.

And things will only get worse.

The digital age means Barack's two terms won't be like Bill Clinton's for THE NATION.

They can pretend -- and do -- that they held Bill's feet to the fire and led the fight for the left.

But they didn't.

Their whoring then is protected as it existed at the early stages of the internet.

Their whoring under Barack?

It's all over the internet. Not just us, but WSWS and many others have called them out.

They have failed to fight against Barack's continued war but Katrina sticks her ugly, big nose into Iraq anytime she thinks she can score points against Bully Boy Bush which, let's all be honest, is her attempt to turn the 2016 election to the Democrats.

She doesn't care about Iraq.

She never has.

That's why she repeatedly ignored Americans who refused to fight -- or continue to fight -- in Iraq.

War resisters found no support from Katrina.

And we documented that in real time.

So the ugly, old whore -- with a racist grandfather who got the family rich by ripping off African-American entertainers (including Lena Horne) -- needs to grasp that she's not fooling anyone.

And her father's connections to the intelligence community -- which, when noted on her Wikipedia page, she has her interns scrub -- are part of the control of the left and she needs to be rejected completely by the left.

In a mansion tiled with salmon-pink marble, Sunni politician Osama
al-Nujaifi greets visitors in an expansive meeting room. From a chair
flanked by the national flag, he insists he is still vice president of
Iraq — even though Iraq’s prime minister says he is not.

Nujaifi’s
position and Iraq’s two other vice presidencies were eliminated by
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in purported cost-cutting measures
announced this summer. But there is little change at Nujaifi’s office.
His staff is still paid, he said, and he is working as normal.Nujaifi’s defiance highlights Abadi’s weak hand as he fails to execute
anything but superficial changes after pledging wide-ranging reforms in
response to street protests. Smelling blood as he flounders, his
political rivals have turned on him, while ­Iranian-backed militias
leverage what they can from him.

Barack backed Nouri (after Bully Boy Bush installed him). He gave Nouri the second term that the Iraqi voters had denied him.

Then when Nouri's strident hatred of Sunnis became even more intolerable even Barack had to walk away.

Not too far, he can't tire himself out, after all.

He stayed in Nouri's political party (Dawa) when picking the new prime minister of Iraq in August 2014.

Opening a small spot of the Green Zone -- and not even open to all Iraqis -- was treated as a major move by the press -- those who actually reported on the opening, however, tended to note how nothing had really changed.

And Baghdad's night life was already doing well before Haider became prime minister.

In fact, the biggest problem for Baghdad's night life was -- and remains -- Shi'ite police that regularly try to shut down clubs for 'morality' reasons.

As Barack continues to back Haider, it's interesting to note that the only real support he receives in Iraq comes from the man the US government has branded a threat to the US.

ALL IRAQ NEWS reports Shi'ite cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr has called for Haider al-Abadi to continue his push for reforms even in the face of the appeal that a coalition led by Osama al-Nujaifi has filed with the Federal Court of Iraq to overrule Abadi's move to cancel the posts of vice president. ALSUMARIA notes this follows an October 24th decision upholding Haider's move. However, Wael Grace (AL MADA) reports Parliament's stating that despite voting to pass the bill they have never received the official legislation on this move.

Nothing gets sorted out.

On the political front, US Senator John McCain is in Iraq and has Tweeted the following on his meet-ups.

Meanwhile, David Pugliese (OTTAWA CITIZEN) reports newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will reportedly keep Aurora surveillance jets and at least one military refuelling aircraft in Iraq:

The move would placate coalition allies, particularly the United
States, who view the refuelling plane and the surveillance aircraft as
valuable contributions to the ongoing air campaign.The move would also allow Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to continue
to say he is keeping his election promise of withdrawing Canada’s six
CF-18 fighter jets. Trudeau promised to end Canada’s combat mission in
Iraq and Syria by bringing the CF-18s home before March. Sources have
said that there is a good chance the Polaris and the Auroras will
stay…..it is unclear at this point how many Canadian Forces personnel
will remain in Kuwait to support the planes.

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